Profile: He chased the dream successfully, too: Batista re-upped, signing a Minor League deal with the New York Mets for the 2012 season, after starting the 2011 with the Cardinals and ending it in Queens. He pitched out of the bullpen for St. Louis before being released, then started for New York. Batista even picked up two wins in the process as a starter, including a two-hit, complete game shutout to end the season. Today, in winter ball in the Dominican League, Batista is closing games, something he hasn’t done since 2005 with the Blue Jays. It all comes full circle. Batista walks more batters than he strikes out, and is hanging on to what’s left of an almost 20-year professional baseball career. Don’t draft him, he’s got no fantasy value, but wish him well. His gold watch -- when the time comes -- will have been well deserved. (Navin Vaswani)

The Quick Opinion: Poet, author, and novelist -- or, as you know him, journeyman right-handed pitcher -- Miguel Batista will be 41-years-old in February, but he continues to chase the dream. Just don't dream him up for your fantasy team.

Profile: Miguel Batista might be a poet, or maybe the next Dominican Dan Brown, but his pitching inspires prose more appropriate to Charles Bukowski these days. Maybe a team will give him some low-leverage mop-up innings next season, but with a strikeout-to-walk ratio settling in around one, even that's no lock. (Eno Sarris)